That obscure object of psychoanalysis.
This essay examines how psychoanalytic conceptions of the subject and the object in the works of Freud and Lacan may contribute to a re-examination of the vexed issue of the subject-object relationship in science, philosophy and epistemology. For Freud, the ego is the essential subject, yet he regar...
| Publicado en: | Continental Philosophy Review Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 163 - 188 |
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